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large skull of a recent marine Turtle, a model of an Eel (Anguis 

 vulgaris) (modelled by Frank T. Buckland, born 1826, died 

 1880), which was caught in the Test, Hampshire, and weighed 

 7 lb. (3-17 kilos.), and the head of a 23^ lb. (10-66 kilos.) Pike 

 {Esox lucius) caught in the Itchen, Hampshire, in 1877. 



The two galleries are mainly occupied by books, with small 

 mineralogical specimens in the cases on the railing of the lower 

 gallery. 



The most noteworthy (to my particular fancy) specimen in 

 this Museum is the skull of a large Crocodile, labelled : — 

 " Skull. Old World Crocodile, probably Indian." It measures — 



Length, without lower jaw, about 2 ft. 4g in. = 723 mm. 

 with „ „ „ 2 „ 9i „ = 844 mm. 



It is a remarkably rugged skull. There are no bony ridges 

 in front of the eyes (as in Crocodilus loorosus), but there is a 

 large flattened median boss of bone about a quarter to a third of 

 the distance from the eyes to the nostrils. 



(To be continued.) 



